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Day in Engineering History Archive - October 7

Note: These historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet. As detailed in
this article,
there is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites do not validate with authoritative
sources. On RF Cafe, events with hyperlinks have been verified.

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date ;-) A couple years ago, I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos. Where available, I like to use images
from postage stamps from the country where the person or event occurred.

October 7

1868: Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca,
NY. 1885: Nobel Prize winner
Niels Bohr, developer
of the planetary Bohr atomic model, was born. 1931: The U.S. Army first tested the famous
Norden bomb sight. 1939:
Sir Harold
Kroto, Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of carbon Fullerenes, was born. 1940: The U.S. Postal Service issued
a stamp commemorating cotton gin inventor
Eli Whitney. 1950:
Willis Carrier, inventor of the first practical
air conditioning system, manufactured weather," died. 1956:
Clarence Birdseye, inventor of deep freezing
food and inventor of the TV dinner, died. 1959: The dark* far side of the Moon was photographed for the first time
and pictures relayed back to Earth by Russia's
Luna E-3 spacecraft. 1985: Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship
Achille Lauro of the coast of Egypt, and pushed
a wheelchair-bound passenger overboard. 2003: Arnold "the Governator"
Schwarzenegger was elected as governor
of CA.

* Note: There is no 'dark' side of the moon since at any given time fully half of the moon is
illuminated by the sun, in the same manner
as half the Earth is illuminated, depending on its orientation toward the sun. The meaning of 'dark' as applied
to the far side of the moon, which always faces away from Earth, can be taken as per
Merriam-Webster:

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a : not clear to the understanding
b : not known or explored because of remoteness